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Understand a place
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To understand a place

To really understand a place, you need to make a deeper connection with it. You can do so by putting all five of your senses to work separately from one another.

Resilient Destinations
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Resilient Destinations

The curated collection of stories of resilientdestinations.com focuses mostly on initiatives developing resilient tourism and ensuring a sustainable recovery.

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Vision of the future

VISITFLANDERS working on a vision for tomorrow

We want to continue to strengthen our appeal to tourists. Yet, if we are to remain successful in the future, we need to take into account many changes and uncertainties. Our starting point for formulating our vision for the future is our belief in the positive power of tourism. We need to strengthen this power to bring balance so destinations in Flanders can flourish.

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Download the magazine

For a year we, together with various partners, have thought about the transformative power of tourism for the visitor, occupant and destination. We have bundled the result of this co-creative thinking process into the magazine ‘Journey to tomorrow’.

Jan Rotmans
Jan Rotmans
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The future of tourism is customisation

Dutch professor Jan Rotmans is an expert on the subject of transition management and sustainability who is much sought-after, both at home and abroad. As a ‘progressor’, he also endeavours to translate theoretical transitional science into concrete actions and advice for entrepreneurs, governments and organisations.

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The Lime, heart of a flourishing place

The tourism of tomorrow will be rooted in local communities. In neighbourhoods, villages and cities that thrive and, as a result, enjoy welcoming enthusiastic visitors. A flourishing community is very much connected to its specific place; where people work together, where visitors can feel at home and residents can nurture and share their love for the place.

Stayer cycles
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Stayer cycles

Meet Judith Rooze, a passionate Belgian wheel builder for sports bikes, located in East London. If you want to know what a passionate community with strong ties to Flanders’ assets looks like, check out this interview in GRAN FONDO, ‘The most exciting cycling magazine’.

Michelle Holliday
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The shift: when tourism becomes hosting

She made a remarkable ‘sojourn’ in Bruges, where VISITFLANDERS hosted a summit about the future of Tourism, named ‘Travel to Tomorrow, growing forward together.’ In her keynote talk, Michelle Holliday, author of the book ‘The Age of Thrivability’, gently invited the tourism sector to become aware of its influence to help create a world where all life can thrive.

American university students on Travel to Tomorrow
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American university students on Travel to Tomorrow

An intensive one month visit to the Low Countries: two weeks in the Netherlands, two weeks in Belgium, Flanders and Brussels. That’s what 26 American students from Berkeley University in San Francisco and their Flemish professor Jeroen Dewulf have just completed. They concluded their trip at VISITFLANDERS where they exchanged ideas on Travel to Tomorrow.